Title: Fourth Grade Teacher (Literacy and Mathematics)

Job Status: Beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, Full-time, Exempt, 10-month

Salary Range: $62,758 to $104,952 annually based on degree and experience

Department: Lower School

We are seeking a passionate, collaborative, and highly skilled Fourth Grade Teacher to join our vibrant Lower School community. 

Fourth Grade marks a significant milestone in our students' journey as they transition from the co-teaching models of earlier grades to a departmentalized structure. Our Fourth Grade Teachers lead a Homeroom and serve on a team of three core instructors. They collaborate within a larger Grade Level Team of five to ensure a cohesive and joyful experience for all students. This role requires an educator who thrives in a high-collaboration environment, possesses a deep understanding of age-appropriate development and instructional practices, and is eager to contribute to the life of the school beyond the classroom walls. 

Essential Responsibilities

Instruction 

• Departmentalized Teaching: Serve as a lead instructor for Literacy and Mathematics, teaching these core subjects to rotating groups of 20 students within the fourth-grade cohort.
• Instructional Continuity: Collaborate closely with your team to ensure that student progress, behaviors, and needs are communicated seamlessly as they rotate through different classrooms.
• Differentiated Excellence: Design inquiry-based lessons that challenge high-achievers while supporting neurodiverse learners, ensuring mathematics and literacy remain engaging and accessible.
• Data-Informed Planning: Use formative and summative assessments to track student growth and pivot instructional strategies accordingly.
• Curriculum Innovation: Contribute to the ongoing refinement of our fourth-grade curriculum, aligning with best practices for the 9–10-year-old developmental stage.

Homeroom and Social-Emotional Leadership

• Homeroom Stewardship: Lead morning Homeroom sessions that serve as the emotional anchor for your students' day.
• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Instruction: Deliver intentional SEL curriculum during Homeroom, focusing on the specific developmental needs of fourth graders, including executive functioning, digital citizenship, and complex peer relationships.
• Bridge Year Support: Guide students through the shift of moving between teachers, helping them build the self-advocacy, organization, and independence needed for the upper grades. 
• Positive Environment: Maintain a joyful, organized, and loving classroom culture through proactive management and clear, consistent routines.

Community, Team, and Campus Engagement

• Collaboration: Engage actively in team-level, grade-level, divisional, and K-12 meetings.
• Full-Campus Engagement: Embrace the life of the school by supporting school operations, planning grade-level traditions, and attending community-wide evening or weekend events.
• Experiential Learning: Support and participate in off-campus learning experiences, including the annual 3-day/2-night fourth grade Hawai'i Island trip, facilitating place-based learning and ensuring student safety during overnight travel.
• Professional Growth: Commit to ongoing professional development and participate in formal and informal professional growth observations.

Communication and Professionalism

• Parent Partnership: Maintain warm, transparent communication. Utilize digital platforms (i.e., Google Classroom, Jupiter Grades) to keep families informed of their child’s progress.
• Professional Integrity: Demonstrate high emotional intelligence, a solutions-oriented mindset, and a genuine love for the 4th-grade age group.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related discipline required, Master’s degree preferred. 

• Coursework in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or a related field is also preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of full-time teaching experience. Experience in a departmentalized or "rotation-based" elementary model is highly desirable.

• Expert knowledge of fourth-grade literacy and mathematics. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication; proficiency in educational technology; a willingness to receive feedback; and the cognitive flexibility to work across multiple teams.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Ability and willingness to participate in overnight, off-island student travel.

• Ability to see and hear within normal parameters with or without correction.

• Full range of head, neck, and back movement; unrestricted ability to bend knees, raise arms above the head, and to move hands, fingers, and wrists.

• Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds without difficulty.

• Ability to sit for extended periods, and ability to stand and/or walk for sustained periods of time.

• Must successfully pass fingerprinting, background checks, and TB clearance due to working in proximity to children.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume through our employment webpage. The position will remain open until filled.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.